Elizabeth Banks

Elizabeth Maresal Mitchell, better known as Elizabeth Banks, her stage name, was born in Pittsgield, Massachusetts, on February 10, 1974. She was the eldest of four children. And she already as a young girl highlighted her blonde beauty with light eyes, since she participated in local contests for that purpose. But since a woman should not live by beauty alone, Elizabeth she undertook studies at the University of Pennsylvania, where she graduated; In addition, as she wanted to be an actress, she decided to seriously prepare by enrolling at the American Conservatory Theater in San Francisco, where she graduated in 1998. And she left for New York, New York, where her first acting jobs were in stage. At the same time, she was achieving small roles in television series –such as Sex and the City – and cinema.

But if she wanted to make it on the screen, she had to go to Los Angeles. At least that’s what Elizabeth thought, that as a first measure she had no choice but to change her stage name, so that she would not be confused with the actress Elizabeth Mitchell . So she became Elizabeth Banks.

Banks got on the web of success with Spider-Man (2002). Not that her role as the secretary of the editor of the newspaper where Peter Parker works was memorable, but being in the blockbuster of the spider superhero was not bad, and she repeated it in the other two installments. She was not bad either to have a discreet presence in Catch Me If You Can , by Steven Spielberg . It was certainly better than accompanying Madonna in the horrible Swept Away the same year .

With Tobey Maguire , aka Spider-Man, he repeated the story of the legendary racehorse in Seabiscuit (2004); and they will be seen together again in The Details , which they just shot. After co-starring with Glenn Close in Over the Top (2005), and goofing off with Steve Carell in The 40-Year-Old Virgin (2005), he co-starred with Mark Wahlberg in the true-life sports drama Invincible (2006). Let’s say that like a little ant, Banks has been adding secondary roles, none memorable, almost always in comedies, such as Definitely, perhaps , Bad example ,Shall we make a porn? or Caught in a Freak , all four in 2008. A healthy change, that year, was playing Laura Bush in Oliver Stone’s biopic of President George W.Bush in W .. And already set to test other fields, she addressed terror with Strange Presences (2009) and the thriller in The Next Three Days (2010). She has also enjoyed popularity with television forays of hers, first on Scrubs in 2006, and then on Rockefeller Plaza in 2010.

Personally, Banks is doing divinely. A lover of social networks, he turns to Facebook and Twitter to deliver happy news. Thus, married since 2003 to Max Handelman by the Jewish rite -he was her boyfriend since far away 1992-, they have a son gestated in a surrogate, news that spread like wildfire on the internet thanks to the actress’s tweets.